Great Learning

"e;Only by consciously learning to live with viruses, to live with uncertainty and to learn from disasters will it be possible to find a proper path for the sustainable survival and development of mankind. We will eventually understand that the only thing that can be certain in this world is uncertainty, and that any state of certainty will be the result of human beings adapting to uncertainty and constructing it, and always in the process of change full of uncertainty.Book Summary: In 1931, when the Yangtze River was flooded, Chiang Kai-shek was busy besieging the Red Army. Someone criticized him in the newspaper, so Chiang took a warship around from Jiangxi to Wuhan. Wuhan was so plagued with plague that Chiang didn't dare to go ashore, so a few senior members of the Hubei Provincial Government had to take a small boat and run to the warship to report.From Chiang Kai-shek in the face of the Yangtze River flooding that "e;this is a natural disaster flood, not manpower can do"e; ulterior motives and inexorable, to the 1954 Chinese communists mobilized the strength of the entire Chinese people to fight the flood, and the successful implementation of the Jingjiang River flood, to save the three towns of Wuhan, we have already felt the newborn socialist system's enormous superiority.Disaster/death/uncertainty is not so much an accident of history as history itself; not so much a wave in the tide of history as the great force that stirs the tide of history. It appears to be an extraordinary state of human history, but in reality it is simply a special manifestation of the normalized inner constitution of natural or social ecology."e;